Hello again: reviving the blog!

For a variety of personal reasons, some good, like family weddings and some less good (a few health issues) I've neglected my blog for quite a while. However, things are settling down a little and I think it's time to get back to it again. Of course, there's probably nobody out there still reading it! Just in case there is, I shall probably write a few retrospective posts to summarise some key posts I would have written over the last few months.